Missing from all the gossip lists was the name of Strategic Air Commander Curtis LeMay, 50, one of the great military organizers of modern times, who does not wear a West Point ring (Ohio State ...

A group of activists is calling for the revocation of a Japanese government honor given to U.S. Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, who masterminded the devastating firebombing of Tokyo during World War II.

An icon of the U.S. Air Force; a remarkably creative tactician; and one of the Cold War's fiercest warriors; General Curtis LeMay led a colorful if extremely controversial career. From early on he ...

During the 2023 Air Force Global Strike Command Operations Awards, the B-52 crew received the Air Force Global Strike Command ...

John Aldaz On January 26, 1950, when General Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, attended yet another conference to discuss the next U.S. long-range heavy ...

Curtis LeMay (centre) with US President John F. Kennedy at a Florida air force base in 1962. Photo: AP US soldiers inspect buildings destroyed by a B-29 bomber in Tokyo in June 1945.

Apparently the USA military thought LeMay did a fine job as only a few years later he was put in charge of the air campaign in Korea. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 ...

Air Force general Curtis LeMay, head of the strategic air command during the Korean War, estimated that the American campaign killed 20% of the population. “We went over there and fought the war ...

An icon of the U.S. Air Force; a remarkably creative tactician; and one of the Cold War's fiercest warriors; General Curtis LeMay led a colorful if extremely controversial career. From early on he ...